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public affairs, and so long as the municipal offices are in control of 

 men mentally or morally unfit to assume the responsibility. When the 

 public is properly educated on the subject, and people begin to desire 

 pure food furnished to them in its best form, then will food laboratories 

 be established and properly maintained; then will food laws be strictly 

 enforced and food adulteration become a practice of the past. 



Upon motion, the paper by Professor Jaffa was received and placed 

 on file. 



SELECTION OF THE NEXT MEETING-PLACE OF THE 

 CONVENTION. 



The following places were placed in nomination: Oroville, Butte 

 County; Hanford, Kings County, and Los Angeles: resulting in Hanford 

 receiving nine votes, Oroville three, and Los Angeles seven. 



The Chair then called for a vote from those who wished to leave the 

 matter of selecting a place to the State Board entirely, and suggesting 

 the city of San Francisco, and seventeen votes were cast. 



Upon motion of W. H. Aiken, the matter of selecting the next 

 meeting-place was left with the State Board of Horticulture. 



The following were appointed a committee to judge the fruits exhibited 

 before the Convention, and were ordered to report to the Secretary of the 

 State Board of Horticulture: Edward Berwick, Edward Ehrhorn, and 

 Professor George Hussmann. 



Edward Berwick, E. F. Adams, and B. N. Rowley were appointed 

 a Coipmittee on the Nicaragua Canal. 



BIEDS m THEIE EELATION TO AGEIOULTUEE AND 

 HOETIOULTUEE. 



By W. otto EMERSON, of Hay wards. 



The beneficial relations of birds to agriculture and horticulture are of 

 untold value, not easily expressed by figures of speech. We find in 

 this age of rapid advancement in the modes of producing the best 

 results from the soil, that man strives in every way to protect his 

 holdings. This is as it should be, and shows his desire for increased 

 knowledge and his elevation to a higher plane in this world's afiairs. 



After years of careful research, it has been proven that bird life has 

 certain functions to perform in guarding the food-supply of the earth, 

 just as the hills carry the falling rain down to the lower levels, and as 

 the grass-blades and leaves protect the seeds, blossoms, and fruits 

 against damage. 



